I never tried watercolors. I paint in oil. You dont have to paint grassblades to make it believable. It the end we only paint stains of color on 2 dimensional surface. Your grass is already very believable. Use different value strokes and accent where you have uniform grass surfaces to make it more believable. Before I comment further - my first rule is that the photo is only a recommendation. Not everything that works in a photo will work in a painting. Change and adjust as you see fit to make your painting more interesting! The top picture is very nice! You got the grass and field naturally recognizable. Darker tone in the foreground and lighter in the distance creates believable volume. The focal point seems to be the distant tree on the right. I'd make it darker and sharper, if possible. The only issue that bothers my eye is that the foreground tree is very think. It steals too much balance and attention. I'd make the tree trunk narrower and let the sky be seen to the left. The left picture is too uniform in values. Make the foreground a bit darker and the field in the distance lighter. The sharp bend in the road adds tension to the picture that I think doesnt belong here. I'd make the road more S shaped. the road leads the viewer to the distance. You can use it to make the viewer to look where YOU want. I cannot make out whether it is one or two trees in the picture. They are a bit blocky and rectangular. I see four trunks but I dont see light shining between them. It would make them more elegant. Finally to make the canopy more interesting, make a branch stick out and some holes with skies showing through towards the top. You already made some but the value of the blue is darker and does not match the value of the skies so it doesnt read clearly. The square hole on the top works. The right picture is interesting and you got the bicycle very nicely painted. The horizon is rounded and the trees all radially stick out. It makes a wonderful dreamy, surreal sensation, as thought you are on a small planet. If the bicycle is our point of interest, I would make it darker and sharper. Right now it is very close in value to the trees and reads almost wooden to me. Make it a little warmer (red/orange) but dont make it too bright so it doesnt jump out of the scene. I would also make the thick tree trunk on the left a bit thinner. The rucksack supports the bike nicely and makes it even more interesting of a picture. All in all, I like your sketches! :) | Artwod Feedback